The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives
Congress says the call by the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party for
the arrest of the national leader of the APC, Bola Tinubu, is mischievous.
The APC added that since Tinubu called for the
roasting of those who would rig the coming governorship election in Ekiti and
Osun states, the PDP’s reaction showed that it was defending the continued
subjection of elections in Nigeria to manipulation and rigging.
In a statement by the Lagos State Publicity
Secretary of the APC, Joe Igbokwe, the party wondered why the PDP always grew
paranoid whenever the issue of punishment for election riggers cropped up.
Igbokwe said the Lagos PDP, by its reaction, was
also publicising the readiness of the party to continue to tow the “line of
electoral criminality through shamelessly stealing every election and
subjecting the country to the scourge of corrupt unelected leadership”.
 |
| Bola Ahmed Tinubu |
He said, “We are not surprised that it is the PDP
that has come in defence of election rigging because we know the history of the
party.
“That the state chapter of a party that has been
ruling the country for the past 15 years can come out and make an endorsement
of election rigging – as the call for Tinubu’s arrest for warning against
election rigging portends – shows that Nigerians have not witnessed the last
of the PDP’s bizarre electoral frauds.
“We therefore warn Nigerians to be on their
guards as the Ekiti and Osun governorship elections approach and the 2015
elections draw nearer.”
Igbokwe said the state of the country with
“wrecked infrastructure, corruption, governmental incompetence and embarrassing
cluelessness, general state of insecurity and hopelessness” were products of
electoral fraud.
The Lagos APC spokesman disagreed with the
state PDP that Tinubu’s statement was capable of worsening the security
situation in the country.
He pointed out that the problem of insecurity
among others that was presently overwhelming was as a result of election
manipulation.
Culled: www.punchng.com
No comments:
Post a Comment